Funny Cide Funny Cide Four Footed Fotos NEWS * Monday, June 2: Visa Triple Crown hopeful scheduled to work Tuesday morning * Sunday, June 1: Next worked scheduled for Tuesday, weather permitting * Saturday, May 31: Exercise rider Smullen: "He was tough today" * Friday, May 30: Funny Cide gallops over Belmont Main Track * Wednesday, May 28: Funny Cide works 5 furlongs in bullet :59 2/5 at Belmont Park * Monday, May 26: One-lap jog over the sloppy Belmont Main Track * Sunday, May 25: Funny Cide gallops twice around Belmont Main Track * Saturday, May 24: Triple Crown hopeful jogs once around sloppy Belmont track * Friday, May 23: Funny Cide jogs over muddy main track Notes: * Chestnut 3-year-old gelding. Breeding: Distorted Humor â” Belles Good Cide (Slewacide) * Bred by Win Star Farm LLC in New York. * Foaled on April 20, 2000. * Sire: Distorted Humor raced 4 years, 23 starts, 8 wins and $769,964 in earnings. Sired one crop, 65 foals, 26 starters, 10 winners, 3 stakes winners. Distorted Humor stands at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky. * Dam: Belle''s Good Cide raced 3 years, 26 starts, 2 wins and $26,696 in earnings. Dam of 3 foals, 2 starters, 2 winners, 1 stakes winner. * Won the Kentucky Derby (Gr. 1) and the Preakness Stakes (Gr. 1) in 2003. Will try to become the 12th winner of the Triple Crown when he goes to post in the 135th running of the $1 million Belmont Stakes (Gr. 1) on Saturday, June 7 at Belmont Park. * Became the first New York-bred to win the Kentucky Derby (Gr. 1). * Was the first gelding to win the Kentucky Derby (Gr. 1) since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. * Three New York-bred horse have won the Belmont Stakes, though none in 121 years: Ruthless (1867), Fenian (1869) and Forester (1882). * One gelding has won the Belmont Stakes: Crème Fraiche in 1985. * Funny Cide is a perfect 3-for-3 at Belmont Park. He broke his maiden in a 6-furlong maiden-special-weight race on Sept. 8, 2002, then won two state-bred stakes races: the 7-furlong B. F. Bongard on Sept. 29, 2002 and the 1-mile Sleepy Hollow on Oct. 19, 2002. * Started his 2003 Triple Crown campaign with a fifth-place finish in the Holy Bull Stakes (Gr. 3) at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 18; it was the worst finish of his career after he hit the gate at the start. His next two races were more positive: he was third in the Louisiana Derby (Gr. 2) at Fair Grounds on March 9 and he was second in the Wood Memorial (Gr. 1) at Aqueduct on April 12. Career Record: 5-2-0 from eight starts with earnings of $1,889,385. Stakes Victories: * Preakness Stakes (Gr. 1) â” May 17, 2003 at Pimlico. * Kentucky Derby (Gr. 1) â” May 3, 2003 at Churchill Downs. * Sleepy Hollow â” Oct. 19, 2002 at Belmont Park. * B. F. Bongard â” Sept. 29, 2002 at Belmont Park. Owner - Sackatoga Stables and Jackson Knowlton * Sackatoga Stable is a racing syndicate whose managing partner is Jackson Knowlton. Several years ago, Knowlton teamed up with four of his hometown friends from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., which is on the east end of Lake Ontario, to form Sackatoga Stable. * Following Funny Cideâ™s victory in the Kentucky Derby, the ebullient Knowlton gleefully shouted, âœItâ™s kind of an American Dream. We bought a lottery ticket â“ it was a $75,000 lottery ticket â“ and we won.â• He went on: âœWeâ™re the little guys in the game â“ a three-horse stable, and we won one for the little guys. Itâ™s a thrill beyond belief.â• * The group stands on the threshold of winning the Visa Triple Crown and the $5-million Visa Triple Crown Challenge bonus. If Funny Cide wins the Belmont Stakes he will be historyâ™s 12th Triple Crown winner and the first since Affirmed in 1978. * The stable, which was begun in 1995, has raced such horses as Bail Money and Sackets Six. Knowlton and partners Gus Williams and David Mahan own equal shares of 20 percent in Funny Cide, with the rest being shared by seven other members of the partnership. Jackson Knowlton * Knowlton owns a small health-care consulting firm in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., called Empire Health Advisors. His wife, Dorothy, operates Saratoga Soles, a shoe boutique in Saratoga Springs, along with their daughter Wendy. Their son, Aaron, works as a consultant in Washington, D.C. * The ownership list has grown since the original five got together in Sackatoga Stable. The list, with some biographical information on each, follows: Gus Williams is a 77-year-old retired homebuilder who lives in Delmar, N.Y., and owns 20 percent of Funny Cide. Dave Mahan is 55 and a resident of Watertown, Conn. He owns Mahanâ™s Lakeview Fine Catering and 20 percent of the horse. Lew Titterton, 55, lives in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and is president of Nymed, a health-care company. He owns 10 percent of Funny Cide. Eric Dattner is a 67-year-old retired mechanical engineer who lives in Little Neck, N.Y., and owns 10 percent. * Five other partners own 4 percent each. They are: Jon Constance, 54, the retired mayor of Sackets Harbor who owns an optical retail store. Harold Cring, 54, part owner of Bette & Cring, a construction company in Sackets Harbor. Mark Phillips, a 55-year-old part-time teacher at a community college. Heâ™s a resident of Sackets Harbor and a retired high school math teacher of 33 years. Peter Phillips is a 59-year-old resident of Sackets Harbor and a safety specialist at Bette & Cring. Larry Reinhardt, 56, lives in Sackets Harbor and is senior project manager for Bette & Cring. Jockey - Jose Santos * Born: April 26, 1961 in Concepcion, Chile. * Height: 5 feet, 2 inches. * Weight: 112 pounds. * Residence: Hollywood, Fla. * Family: Wife Rita, daughters Sophia Stephanie, Selena Mae, Savannah Lee and Nadia, and sons Jose Ricardo and Jose Jr. * Enjoyed a big year in 2002: he earned $11,917,955 in purses to finish ninth on the purse-earnings list and he won the Breeders' Cup Classic at Arlington Park with Volponi. * Earned an Eclipse Award as Top Jockey in 1988. * Leading rider in New York for three consecutive years in 1986 (237 wins), 1987 (248) and 1988 (298). * Leading rider at Saratoga in 1987, breaking a streak of 11 straight Saratoga riding titles held by Angel Cordero Jr. * Has won three career Belmont Park riding titles: spring 1989, spring 1988 and spring 1986. * Has won five career Aqueduct riding titles: fall 1989, fall 1988, winter 1988, spring 1987 and spring 1986. * Led all riders nationally in money earned for four consecutive years in 1986 ($11,329,297), 1987 ($12,407,355), 1988 ($14,877,298) and 1989 ($13,847,003). * Rode City Zip to a sweep of Saratoga's three major stakes for 2-year-old males â” Sanford, Saratoga Special and Hopeful â” in 2000. City Zip became just the fourth horse to ever pull off that sweep. * Winning rider of Lemon Drop Kid in both $1 million NYRA stakes for 3-year-olds in 1999: the Belmont Stakes and Travers. * Recipient of the Eddie Arcaro Award as the Outstanding Jockey of 1986, 1987 and 1988 by the New York Turf Writers Association. * Won five races in a day, two days in a row at Aqueduct on Feb. 10 and 11, 1988. * Leading rider at the 1985 Hialeah spring meeting with 53 winners. * Tied for leading rider at the 1984 Calder summer meeting with 69 winners. * Rode his first race at the Hipico Racecourse in southern Chile when he was 14. * Father Manuel and three of his seven brothers were jockeys. * Began riding in Florida in early 1984 and quickly earned riding titles at Calder, Gulfstream Park and Hialeah. * Moved to New York in 1985 and became the leading rider in money won for the next four years. * Moved to California at the end of the 1990 Belmont Fall meeting. * Returned to New York in July 1991. * Suffered the worst spill of his career on July 13, 1992 when he fractured his right arm and collarbone, and cracked his hip. Doctors surgically implanted two pins and 14 screws to repair the arm. He returned to riding on Dec. 1, 1992 at Calder. * Brother in law is jockey Heberto Castillo, Jr. * Won his first race with Sebueso on Oct. 24, 1976 at the Hipico Racecourse in Chile. * Won the Belmont Stakes with Lemon Drop Kid in 1999. Is 1-1-0 from 10 starts in the Belmont Stakes. Preakness Stakes: * Won the Preakness Stakes with Funny Cide in 2003. Kentucky Derby: * Won the Kentucky Derby with Funny Cide in 2003. Complete NYRA.com Biography for Jose Santos. Trainer - Barclay Tagg * Born: Dec. 30, 1937 in Lancaster, Pa. * Residence: Woodbine, Md. * Graduated from Pennsylvannia State University in 1961 with a degree in animal science and became involved with horses in 1963 while managing a farm in Pennsylvannia. He began riding jumpers in 1966 and five years later began training horses. * Saddled his first winner â” Tudor's Fancy â” at Liberty Bell in January 1972. * Won the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships with Crab Grass in 1999. The horse earned bonus money of $350,000 for winning the championship. * Royal Mountain Inn won the 1994 Man o'War at Belmont Park. He was 6-for-6 on the Belmont Park turf. * In 1991, Tagg won five stakes races with Miss Josh.